—I can’t repair these until tomorrow, I’m afraid.

—That’s OK, there’s _______.

A．no problem             B．no wonder              C．no doubt                 D．no hurry

____ is known to us all that the old scientist , for ____ life was hard in the past, still works hard in his eighties.

A. It, whom      B. As, whom    C. As, whose       D. What, whom

第二节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

My sister and I grew up in a little village in England．Our father was a struggling   36   , but I always knew he was   37    . He never criticized us, but used   38    to bring out our best. He'd say,“If you pour water on flowers, they  flourish. If you don't give them water, they die.” I   39   as a child I said something   40   about somebody, and my father said, “   41   time you say something unpleasant about somebody else, it's a reflection of yourself.” He explained that if I looked for the best   42    people, I would get the best   43  . From then on I've always tried to   44  the principle in my life and later in running my company.

Dad's also always been very    45    . At 15, I started a magazine. It was   46   a great deal of my time, and the headmaster of my school gave me a    47   stay in school or leave to work on my magazine.

I decided to leave, and Dad tried to sway me from my decision,    48    any good father would．When he realized I had made up my mind, he said, “Richard, when I was 23, my dad   49   me to go into law. And I've   50    regretted it. I wanted to be a biologist,    51     I didn't pursue my    52   . You know what you want. Go fulfill it.”

As   53   turned out, my little publication went on to become Student, a national    54    for young people in the U.K. My wife and I have two children, and I'd like to think we are bringing them up in the same way Dad   55   me.

36．A．biologist        B．manager       C．lawyer       D．gardener

37．A．strict           B．honest         C．special       D．learned

38．A．praise          B．courage        C．power       D．warmth

39．A．think          B．imagine      C．remember    D．guess

40．A．unnecessary   B．unkind          C．unimportant   D．unusual

41．A．Another        B．Some         C．Any         D．Other

42．A．on             B．in            C．at           D．about

43．A．in case          B．by turns       C．by chance    D．in return

44．A．revise          B．set          C．review       D．follow

45．A．understanding B．experienced      C．serious          D．demanding

46．A, taking up       B．making up     C．picking up           D．keeping up

47．A．suggestion       B．decision       C．notice         D．choice

48．A．and           B．as           C．even if       D．as if

49．A．helped         B．allowed      C．persuaded    D．suggested

50．A．always         B．never        C．seldom       D．almost

51．A．rather          B．but           C．for          D．therefore

52．A．promise         B．task           C．belief               D．dream

53．A．which          B．he            C．it           D．that

54．A．newspaper       B．magazine      C．program      D．project

55．A．controlled       B．comforted      C．reminded            D．raised

O. Henry was a pen name used by an American writer of short stories. His real name was William Sydney Porter. He was born in North Carolina in 1862. As a young boy he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school for very long, but he managed to teach himself everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas, where he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank, when some money went missing from the bank O. Henry was believed to have stolen it. Because of that, he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and continued writing. He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because simple as the tales were, they would finish with a sudden change at the end, to the reader’s surprise.

57. In which order did O. Henry do the following things?

   a. Lived in New York.   b. Worked in a bank.        c. Traveled to Texas.

   d. Was put in prison.   e. Had a newspaper Job.      f. Learned to write stories.

   A. e. c. f. b. d. a       B. c. e. b. d. f. a     C. e. b. d. c. a. f.    D. c. b. e. d. a f.

58. People enjoyed reading O. Henry’s stories because         -

A. they had surprise endings          B. they were easy to understand

C. they showed his love for the poor     D. they were about New York City

59 O. Henry went to prison because               .

A. people thought he had stolen money from the newspaper

B. he broke the law by not using his own name

C. he wanted to write stories about prisoners

D. people thought he had taken money that was not his

60.  What do we know about O. Henry before he began writing?

    A. He was well-educated.        B. He was not serious about his work.

    C. He was devoted to the poor.     D. He was very good at learning.

 To be frank, I don’t think the carpets and curtains in your room  _________well.

A.fit           B. suit         C. match          D. go

 It was so cold that they kept the fire ______ all night.

A.burn        B.burning       C.burned         D.burns

More and more people choose to shop in a supermarket as it offers a great _______ of goods.                                      

A. variety            B. mixture         C.extension      D.combination

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36－55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项.

"Everything happens for the best." My mother said whenever I faced disappointment, "If you 36    one day something good will happen. And you'll realize that it wouldn't have happened if not for that previous   37  ."

    Mother was right. After graduating from college I had decided to try for a job in   38  , then work my way up to   39   . I got   40   on the door of every station every time.

    In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations wouldn't   41   hiring an inexperienced person. "Go out in the sticks(边远地区) and find a   42   station that'll give you a chance." she said.

    I thumbed(搭便车) home to Dixon, Illi.   43   there were no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local   44   to manage   45   sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high-school football, I  46   the post, but I wasn't hired.

    My disappointment must have shown. "Everything happens for the best." Mom   47  me. I drove to Davenport, in Iowa. I   48   WOC Radio there. Peter Macarthur, the program director, told me they had already hired an announcer.

    As I left his office, my frustration(挫折感)   49   over. I asked aloud. "How can a fellow get to be a sports announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station ?" I was waiting for the   50   when I heard Macarthur calling. "What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about   51   ?" Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast a(an)   52   game.

    I remembered a game we had won. I did a 15-minute buildup to that play, and Peter told me I would   53   Saturday's game!

On my way home, I thought of my mother's words,   54   I have many times since, "If you … , one day something good will happen...."

I often wonder what my   55   might have been like if I'd gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.

A. work hard       B. are brave    C. carry on     D. are lucky

A. problems      B. difficulty    C. disappointment  D. unemployment

A. sports      B. radio   C. shops  D. clubs

A. sports announcer    B. sports star   C. shop manager    D. film maker

A. turned away    B. turned down      C. turned in    D. turned off

A. like        B. decide C. stand   D. risk

A. bigger     B. small  C. local   D. private

A. If        B. While C. Unless D. Until

A. businessman    B. college student   C. athlete        D. announcer

A. his        B. her     C. their   D. its

A. applied for    B. accepted     C. considered  D. refused

A. blamed  B. suggested   C. reminded    D. persuade

A. listened to   B. found  C. tried   D. expected

A. became  B. turned C. went   D. boiled

A. lift      B. director      C. result  D. reply

A. radio   B. directing    C. football      D. broadcasting

A. live     B. imaginary   C. exciting      D. lively

A. join in   B. miss    C. broadcast    D. organize

A. as      B. then    C. when  D. though

A. dream    B. aim     C. life     D. failure

That “Monday morning feeling” could be a crushing pain in the chest which leaves you sweating and gasping for breath. Recent research from Germany and Italy shows that heart attacks are more common on Monday mornings and doctors blame the stress of returning to work after the weekend break.

       The risk of having a heart attack on any given day should be one in seven, but a six-year study helped by researchers at the Free University of Berlin of more than 2,600 Germans showed that the average person had a 20 per cent higher chance of having a heart attack on a Monday than on any other day.

       Working Germans are particularly not protected against attack, with a 33 per cent higher risk at the beginning of the working week. Non-workers, by comparison, appear to be no more at risk on a Monday than any other day.

       A study of 11,000 Italians proved 8 am on a Monday morning as the most stressful time for the heart, and both studies showed that Sunday is the least stressful day, with fewer heart attacks in both countries.

       The findings could lead to a better understanding of what is the immediate cause of heart attacks, according to Dr Stefan Willich of the Free University. “We know a lot about long-term risk factors such as smoking and cholesterol（胆固醇）but we don’t know what actually causes heart attacks, so we can’t give clear advice on how to prevent them,” he said.

       Monday mornings have a double helping of stress for the working body as it makes a rapid change from sleep to activity, and from the relaxing weekend to the pressures of work.

       “When people get up, their blood pressure and heart rate go up and there are hormonal（内分泌）changes in their bodies,” Willich explained. “All these things can have an unfavourable effect in the blood system and increase the risk of a clot（血凝块）in the arteries（动脉）which will cause a heart attack.”

       “When people return to work after a weekend off, the pace of their life changes. They have a higher workload, more stress, more anger and more physical activity,” said Willich.

Monday morning feeling, as this passage shows,         .

       A. is not so serious as people thought

B. is harmful to working people in developed countries.

       C. is the first killer in Germany and Italy.  

 D. is created by researchers in Germany and Italy

To protect people from suffering from heart attack, doctors have paid much attention to     .      A. people’s working time B. people’s living place      

C. people’s diet and lifestyle  D. people’s nationalities

It can be learned from this passage that heart attack has nothing to do with      .

       A. blood pressure  B. heart rate  C. hormonal changes  D. blood group

If the researchers give us some advice to avoid Monday morning feeling, what might it be?

       A. Stop working on Monday                   B. Create a pleasant working environment

       C. Get up late on Monday morning              D. Go to work with a doctor

第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

       根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

In order to help children learn to use an English dictionary, you’ll obviously need to have one on hand for them to view.

     __71__ It is used to give the meaning and the usage of any given word in English.

     __72__ If it has not yet been introduced to the children, they need to learn it so that they can use the English dictionary effectively (高效地). __73__ Ask the children to choose a word, and then show them how you search for the word by alphabetical order.

     Show the children how to learn a new word with an English dictionary. __74__ You will also need to point out how some words can be used as nouns and verbs, etc.

      __75__ To make sure that the children understand how to look up a word in the dictionary, ask them to choose a few more words, and guide them as they look each one up themselves.

A.Check if the children are familiar with the alphabet (字母表).

B.Begin with explaining what an English dictionary is used for.

C.The children will find a plain dictionary boring and uninteresting.

D.Finally, help the children to practice how to use the dictionary themselves.

E.Finally, make sure the children have learned some new words with the dictionary.

F.You need to show them how the dictionary explains the meaning of the word.

G.When the children have well mastered the alphabet, simply show them how an English dictionary is used.